[yocto] Shallow git clones?

[Alexander Kanavin]

On 11/03/2016 03:06 PM, Gary Thomas wrote:
> I recall seeing some discussion in the past about using shallow
> GIT clones when importing repositories?  Is this ever going to
> happen?
>
> The reason I ask is that I routinely save the GIT tarballs and
> some of them are obscenely obese :-(  The worst of the bunch
> is the device firmware for the RaspberryPi (as of today):
>   -rw-rw-r-- 1 gthomas gthomas 6321877646 Nov  3 12:13
> git2_github.com.raspberrypi.firmware.git.tar.gz
>
> This particular tar file increased by more than 300MB since
> the last time I downloaded it (only 2016-09-13!)  I routinely
> slosh these files across the oceans (sometimes using tin cans
> and strings it seems) and this can be very tedious.  Is there
> anything that can be done to make these files a bit more manageable?

Yes. You can investigate if the upstream produces tarball releases, and 
convince them to do it if they don't. Generally we prefer tarball 
downloads in oe-core for this exact reason, but it is not always possible.

Alex